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How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance

Fleischman, Forrest; Basant, Shishir; Fischer, Harry ; Gupta, Divya; Lopez, Gustavo Garcia; Kashwan, Prakash; Powers, Jennifer S.; Ramprasad, Vijay; Rana, Pushpendra; Rastogi, Archi; Solorzano, Claudia Rodriguez; Schmitz, Marissa

Sammanfattning

Interest in forest-based carbon storage has led to growth in financing for carbon forestry. Most financial strategies rest on strong assumptions which are not valid in many parts of the world. We use cases drawn from tribal forestry in the US and government forestry in India to illustrate how carbon finance relies on the presence of enforceable rights, representative and accountable institutions, clear incentives, and symmetrical power relations. In the absence of these conditions, carbon finance provides perverse incentives that undermine biodiversity and human rights without storing carbon. We suggest that for forest-based carbon storage to be successful, more attention needs to be paid to underlying political reforms, as well as to policies that are not reliant on finance.

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Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
2021, Volym: 51, sidor: 7-14

    Globala målen

    Minska ojämlikheten inom och mellan länder
    Främja fredliga och inkluderande samhällen för hållbar utveckling, tillhandahålla tillgång till rättvisa för alla samt bygga upp effektiva, och inkluderande institutioner med ansvarsutkrävande på alla nivåer
    Stärka genomförandemedlen och återvitalisera det globala partnerskapet för hållbar utveckling

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    Skogsvetenskap

    Publikationens identifierare

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.01.007

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    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/112313